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First post, by Moogle!

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Does anyone know of a program to check the staus and functionality of the L2 cache on the motherboard? I want to make sure the cache on my DOS machine is being utilized.

Reply 1 of 8, by h-a-l-9000

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memtest86? Might be too new though...

1+1=10

Reply 2 of 8, by Moogle!

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Displays it as being unavailable, so yeah, too new.

There is CHKCPU, but it only tells me about the L1 cache.

Reply 3 of 8, by Amigaz

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Use cachechk

Are you curious if your socket 3 mobo has fake cache? 😉

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Reply 4 of 8, by Moogle!

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Amigaz wrote:

Use cachechk

Are you curious if your socket 3 mobo has fake cache? 😉

Nope. It's real alright. Though one bank came from one baord, the second bank came from another, and the tag came from a third. It's reading 512k at the boot screen, but I want to know if it is working.

Reply 6 of 8, by Amigaz

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Moogle! wrote:
Amigaz wrote:

Use cachechk

Are you curious if your socket 3 mobo has fake cache? 😉

Nope. It's real alright. Though one bank came from one baord, the second bank came from another, and the tag came from a third. It's reading 512k at the boot screen, but I want to know if it is working.

I wonder if it's any performance bost to upgrade the cache to 512k on a socket 3 mobo..would be interesting too see a benchmark

My retro computer stuff: https://lychee.jjserver.net/#16136303902327

Reply 7 of 8, by dh4rm4

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POVRAY for DOS would be a good benchmark I suspect, as might any app that makes use of the INTEGER and FLOATING POINT aspects of the CPU.

Reply 8 of 8, by Moogle!

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Anyway, I tried that CacheCHK, and it read 512k too. SO I guess we'll leave it at that.